Pragmatically, our applications do reuse Client instances in production code and have not had any trouble with this. It's meant to be thread safe. Tim points out a valid thread safety issue, but it's not likely to cause you harm and will probably be corrected eventually. On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Sanjay Acharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > I am not very sure I understand. The Restlet client by default uses apache > HttpClient. There are a bunch of configurable settings that can be provided > to Restlet which trickle down to the commons HttpClient like > maxConnectionsPerHost or connectionManagerTimeout etc. The > maxConnectionsPerHost is used to control the maximum number of simultaneous > Http Connections that will be opened and pooled. If the Restlet Client was > to not intended to service multiple thread at the same time, then these > parameters and settings become superflous IMO. > > Thanks, > Sanjay > ---------------------------------------- > > Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:28:57 +0200 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: RE: Assistance and Question > > > > Hi, > > > >> That said, the direction of preference seems to point to using a > >> single instance of Restlet's Client class and setting the "maxConnectio > >> nsPerHost" to some > >> appropriate value. One concern that I have is whether Restlet's > >> Client is designed to be thread safe so that multiple threads can > >> utilize the same instance? > >> In other words, is singleton usage the recommended pattern for using > >> the client? > > > > I think singelton usage is not useful, because you could set different > properties or something like this, if I remember right? > > > > best regards > > Stephan > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Der WEB.DE SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! > > http://smartsurfer.web.de/?mc=100071&distributionid=000000000066 > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > When your life is on the go—take your life with you. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/115298558/direct/01/
